Followup to: <20020904042036.816A62C1B6@lists.samba.org>
By author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In message <20020903.195455.117344683.davem@redhat.com> you write:
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:35:41 +1000
> >
> > This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and
> > Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
> >
> > Verifying... no without the explicit initializers the per-cpu stuff
> > still ends up in the BSS with egcs-2.9X, even with your fix applied.
>
> OK. I really hate working around wierd toolchain bugs (I use 2.95.4
> here and it's fine), and adding an initializer to the macro is ugly.
>
> If you're not going to upgrade your compiler, will you accept a gcc
> patch to fix this? If so, where can I get the source to your exact
> version?
>
gcc puts all uninitialized variables in .bss, and it apparently can't
be overridden. This seems to be a side effect of the way gcc handles
common variables.
-hpa
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